Founding AI/NLP Engineer (m/w/d)

Garching

Join explaino, the next-generation platform for automated explainer videos. Backed by Europe’s greatest early-stage VC EWRO and leading clients like Schneider Electric, Coop, Sparkassen, and AOK, we transform complex documents into dynamic explainer videos — fully automated in less than 30 minutes. We’re now looking for a Founding Engineer to take ownership of our AI core and shape the future of video generation with NLP, LLMs, and computer vision.

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This is not a regular IC role — it's a unique opportunity to become a founding team member. You’ll work closely with the Founder to lead the AI stack behind explaino’s transformation pipeline.

Own, expand, and optimize our end-to-end AI pipeline (from text input to video frame output)
Apply state-of-the-art NLP and LLM techniques (incl. fine-tuning, retrieval augmentation, advanced prompting strategies)
Build systems that combine language, computer vision, and structured video logic
Minimize hallucinations, ensure structure, and validate output with classic NLP techniques

Qualifikation

Experience as a professional AI Engineer, Data Analyst, Applied Research Scientist or similar

Data analytics skills to continuously evaluate and improving model output
2 years+ experience in Python and Huggingface.
Strong NLP knowledge from traditional techniques to transformers + basic understanding of Comp. Vision
German language proficiency on C2 level
Availability on-site in Garching near Munich.
Experience with the following would be beneficial: PyTorch, Azure ML Studio, Optuna, Langchain, Peft & Lora, Bitsandbytes, Scikit, NLTK, Numpy, Pandas, etc.

Benefits

Part of an innovative and dynamic team in a growing tech startup.
Direct influence the company’s success and product development.
Direct collaboration with the Founder.
Option to participate in the company's success through virtual shares (VSOPs).
Building an innovative, leading AI-based video generation backend leveraging various state-of-the-art ML/NLP/CV technologies.
A creative and inspiring work environment.

If you are as ambitious as we are and willing to go the extra mile, we are very much looking forward to your application!